1 Myth: Nothing is manifest. Until a court comes out and convicts Modi, any court, from sessions to CBI special to SC, no one has the right to assume guilt until proven innocent. I am sure Patel applies the same logic to Ishrat Jehan; hence he is a hypocrite to not do the same for Modi.

2 Contradiction: "Congress cannot be absolved on the anti-Sikh riots of 1984" and later "the party has tried to make up for its crime ... gesture to Sikhs in the face of Manmohan Singh ... The fact is that the Congress has made its peace with Sikhs there." The leadership of the nation is NOT a trading card, it's not a poker chip, to be tossed and bartered. Neither are the deaths of people cheap enough to be forgotten like this. If Patel is to be believed, if 3000 Sikh deaths == 1 PM appointment, let's have Modi appoint 1 Muslim President. Will that be acceptable to Patel? If not, he can shove his equivalencies where his head seems to be stuck.

3 Myth: "His two terms as prime minister have done much to heal feelings of Sikhs and non-Sikhs offended by the way the community was treated in Delhi." All Sikhs I know are actually fuming at the treatment meted out to MMS, at how despite being the PM he is forced to play stooge to the dynasty, how his dignity and the dignity of his position have been denigrated.

4 Myth: "Of the 46 Congress MLAs, 33 are Sikh ... in Gujarat, where no Muslim has been given a BJP ticket". Again, Patel poses a seat-to-secularism equivalency. First he conveniently forgets that BJP already has Akali alliance which corners the Sikh vote of the Sikh dominated state. Second, he thinks that giving Muslims legislative seats is enough of a symbol, of appeasement, conveniently forgetting examples like Muzaffarnagar and Assam, both of which had Muslim-pleasing governments at the time when riots occurred.

All in all, the article reads more like a rehashing of stinking old drivel. Once in a while Patel comes up with valid points, points that make one think against own biases. This article is not one of them.

Aaakar Patel belongs to Anti Modi Cottage industry. 11 Years of relentless bumlickin. He's just a handful of pretentious crap just like Jha2Sanjay & his buttboy Tehseen P who's involved in CWG scam with another sugadaddy Kalmadi

Well, I am not sure what you are trying to point out here. Are you saying that congress is trying to make up for its wrong doings by giving Sikhs MLA tickets? BJP has won elections multiple times in Gujarat. I guess that would mean that the majority likes the candidates the party has chosen.